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HARRY MATHIS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 11, 1945 – February 26, 1967
Service recordHarry Mathis JR, of Extension, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 97
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- November 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Extension, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 97
- MICHAEL JON LUTZKEPrivate First Class · February 26, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE MADDENPrivate First Class · February 26, 1967
- CARLOS MEDINAPrivate · February 26, 1967
- ROBERT ARTHUR MILLERCorporal · February 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY EDWARD BRUMLEYSergeant · Panel 15E, Line 93
- RODGER DALE LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 96
- CARLOS MEDINAPrivate · Panel 15E, Line 97
From Extension
- BOBBIE EARL SIKESSergeant · February 19, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.